They like the tech, but live for the high stakes! Sisters Molli and Devyn, along with teammates Roman and Kyo-and a stockpile of cutting edge, cyber-punk technology, form a confident team of mercenary thieves able to take on the most formidable jobs around. Yet, when one cyber heist turns out to be more than they bargained for, as a mysterious package and its contents threaten to unravel the group to its core, the menacing worlds of corrupt industry and deadly espionage is unleashed upon them!
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The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of the classic text presents a leading-edge overview of sustainability in a new fully illustrated, full-color format. Compelling new case studies and expanded treatment of sustainability in rural as well as urban settings are complemented by contributions from a range of experts around the world, demonstrating how "community capital" can be leveraged to meet the needs of cities and towns for: * Energy efficiency, waste reduction, and recycling * Water, sewage, transportation, and housing * Climate change and air quality * Land use and urban planning. Fully supported by a complete suite of online resources and tools, Toward Sustainable Communities is packed with concrete, innovative solutions to a host of municipal challenges. Required reading for policymakers, educators, social enterprises, and engaged citizens, this "living book" will appeal to anyone concerned about community sustainability and a livable future. Mark Roseland is director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and professor at SFU's School of Resource and Environmental Management. He lectures internationally, advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning, and has been cited as one of British Columbia's "top fifty living public intellectuals."
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Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to make clouds? It would be the answer to Mother Nature's problems - rain on tap you might say! Professor Doppleganger, the brilliant but eccentric scientist, actually stumbled upon a cloud-making formula and wants to build thousands of cloud factories, solving all the world's drought problems. How cool is that! But disaster strikes, and the formula falls into the wrong hands - those of the professor's evil money-grabbing twin brother who's all set to hold countries to ransom - Time (and rain!) is running out, and a frantic search for the formula gathers pace. Will Professor Doppelganger be in time to find the formula - and save the planet?
One day, in an attempt to save Beagle, his pet Labrador, Gulliver finds himself swept away into the sea. On waking up, he discovers he has fallen back in time, into the miniature world of one of his antique globesâ?¦
An entertaining book full of humour, science and historyChildren can learn in a fun way about history with more time traveller's than you can throw a Flux-capacitor at!
A highly imaginative fantasy book for children and young adults. Written in the authors' unmistakable style, the book transports readers to a different world. The narrative surrounds the theme of time and follows people who live inside a clock.
Meet Vincent: a young boy from Holland with big dreams. Fortuneless and out of favour with just about everybody, Vincent discovers that he can escape if he only uses his powerful imagination. Sometimes his mind would wander so far, Vincent got lost. Not only did he get lost in the palette of his imagination, he would wander the halls of his Uncle’s art gallery travelling from one painting to another as if traversing the world. And when he discovers his own talent for painting, Vincent opens the door to a wonderful and magical world of art. From his bedroom window, Vincent can see the sky, framed as if in a large canvas. He dreams of painting the night. But can he capture Mother Nature’s magnificent muse? Artists of the world unite and free Vincent, the boy who painted the night.
Time Transfer is an enchanting story about football– a game which lost its magic, and follows the trials and tribulations of Manchester United and Accrington Stanley FC. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact date the magic appeared in the FA Cup. Perhaps it was there from the beginning when the very first ball was kicked, or perhaps it first appeared in 1923 – the year the final was first played at Wembley, known then as the Empire Stadium. Just as the Premier and Champions Leagues were battling it out for the top spot, the magic disappeared, much to the fans disappointment. Can the Football Association bring the magic back to the cup, or will they be powerless to act to restore the magic, like old wizards who no longer possess the magic touch?
On a very usual day, on a very usual school trip to Hampton Court Maze, there is a very unusually named girl called Victoriana Elizabeth Alice Royal. At least she can concentrate on history today and learn new facts as she wanders the maze. But little does Victoriana know that history will come alive for her in a way it never has before...
Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals’ lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets where she was adopted into a street gang who have now become her family. Danny, the trickster and street magician and Tiger, whose animal instincts run close to the surface, and a few others are all animal activists at heart. Although they go one night to an animal sanctuary in the country to tag the walls with graffiti, Jag gets caught in an enclosure. However, it ends up for the best as the keeper takes a shine to her and offers a part time job when she hears Jag’s affinity with the Jaguar spirit. With Jag working at the sanctuary, her gang start spending more time there to see the great Cat Man Do perform his animal magic – until one day when a tiger is let out its cage. And that is only the beginning as a villainous Cat Man begins to stalk the streets with two pet panthers out for blood, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will. With newspapers reporting maulings and deaths and Sergeant Dickins not sure what’s going on, the kids are intrigued by the reports. After witnessing an attack, the kids get sucked into this mysterious Cat Man’s idea of a theatrical villain performance – but even if they have animal instincts and spirits with them and even if the big cats are swaying to their side, should they run before they too turn prey?
What do you do if the family business is magic and youâ??re all fingers and thumbs? If your family are magicians and builders of tricks and illusions for other magicians and you canâ??t even pull a rabbit from a hat, do you turn your back on magic and walk away as far away from Abracadabra St as you canâ?¦or do you try and overcome the hand youâ??re dealt?
In a lovely manor house in West Sussex, living with her parents and grandparents, exists a girl named Tiger. Tiger is autistic and thinks differently to everyone else and didn’t in fact speak until she was seven, but she is a talented painter and adores tigers (and in fact all animals). Although the manor house is her entire world, her imagination opens everything up so she can even believe she can see the Taj Mahal from her attic bedroom window. Her parents love her – even though they wish she might draw on paper rather than the walls! – but even so, Tiger spends a lot of her days alone in the house and in the garden. And it’s there where Tiger’s world will change forever… One night, she paints a raggedy-looking tiger onto an old red brick garden wall. Under the blue moon, the tiger comes shockingly to life. Immediately bonded, Tiger knows in her soul she has found her first friend and willingly abandons her normal life for an adventure of the wild kind!
What would you do if you lost yourself in another world? Orphan Poe Black finds himself lost in a forest inside an attic fighting both real and imaginary entities from the spirit world. Here he meets a young girl, named Sorrow, who he shares a connection with. Two is better than one and they forge ahead together, aware of the danger that creeps ever closer toward them. Set in Finland, just after the covid pandemic, this dark and supernatural, fairy tale follows Poe Black as he manoeuvres through three entirely different worlds, the real world, a parallel world and the spirit world. Can Poe and Sorrow defeat the dark and mysterious entity and make their way back to the so called real world or will they be stuck in the other realms for all eternity?
Will is a young boy who loves museums, ancient artifacts and memorabilia, especially memorabilia of a magical nature. He buys a wardrobe at auction on behalf of his father, who says that it belonged to an old-time magician. Will discovers the the wardrobe is a time machine, a portal to another world, an Aladdin’s Cave, a magician’s trunk, a theatre and much more besides. Will travels in time using the wardrobe or is it a portal to another universe – a ‘wardrobe of wonders’ in another time. There then follow an adventure in time, magic and wonders of both the ancient world and the solar system.
Three children find themselves stuck in a rabbit like tunnel when their Anderson shelter is hit by a bomb during an air raid in World War 2 London. They end up in a garden where they enter an overgrown maze under a magical full moon. Here their fantastical adventure begins as they meet many weird and wonderful characters, and a girl named Snow who they hope to help return to the snowy Kingdom of Nocturnia. The children are up against the White Witch and her advisor, the Nightmare Catcher and the Ice Wizards, who want to stop Snow and her allies from returning to Nocturnia. Can the children help Snow take on her role as Queen and rule Nocturnia once again? Nocturnia: The Tiger, the White Witch and a Girl Named Snow is a captivating and magical story filled with unexpected twists and turns!
In the future, the world is in peril. Global warming has taken its toll, deforestation has wiped out too many forests and there’s worse yet to come. Earth is on its last legs, and the Cloud Watchers of old have disappeared into legacy. Deep in the forest, two environmentally conscious runaways live off grid to do their bit to save the planet. Up in the clouds, the floating airship The Cloud Lab watches over the Earth as best they can. A steamship captain, an old Cloud Watcher, workers in Kew Gardens, and more all watch and wonder what will be the final straw that tips the Earth into chaos. When the Anti-Environmental League forms, an unexpected revolt sets events into motion that cannot be undone. Difficult challenges arise that might just be the planet’s ultimate downfall – unless the world’s population can be roused to save itself.
